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dc.contributor.author | Hatton, Timothy J. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Williamson, Jeffrey G. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:19:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:19:25Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21099 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were realwage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wagesending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly makingalready-measured employment conditions less attractive). These two features are even moreprominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as inthe days of ?free? migration? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performancefor the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that exactly the same forces are at work drivingAfrican across-border migration today. Rapid growth in the cohort of young potential migrants,population pressure on the resource base, and poor economic performance are the main forcesdriving African migration. A century ago, more modest demographic forces in Europe wereaccompanied by strong catching-up economic growth in the low-wage emigrant regions,followed by a slowdown in already-modest demographic growth. Yet, migrations were still mass.In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the highwageOECD leaders, and there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimatessuggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will intensify, manifested in part by agrowing demand for entrance into high-wage OECD labor markets. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x250 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O15 | en |
dc.subject.jel | F22 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J11 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J61 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | International migration | en |
dc.subject.keyword | demographic pressure | en |
dc.subject.keyword | African population | en |
dc.subject.stw | Auswanderung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bevölkerungswachstum | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftswachstum | en |
dc.subject.stw | Afrika | en |
dc.subject.stw | Einwanderung | en |
dc.subject.stw | OECD-Staaten | en |
dc.title | Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 841206007 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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